Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (UPenn History-Ph.D, 2018) published in Tablet Magazine

Cracovia (Cracow) in a 1493 woodcut from Hartmann Schedel's 'Nuremberg Chronicle'; view facing west, with Casmirus (Kazimierz) on the left

Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (UPenn History-Ph.D, 2018), published “Is It Permitted to Flee the City?” in Tablet Magazine

"The coronavirus creates an unsettling tunnel in time between 21st-century New York and the world of 16th-century rabbis.  The longer the current COVID-19 ordeal unfolds, the more the word “unprecedented” is repeated….."

 

Read the full article here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/coronavirus-16th-century-rabbis